Gun-carriage for portable guns.



:No 723,684. PATENTBD MAR. 2 1903.

J. KRONE & 0. BEHNKE. GUN CARRIAGE FOR PORTABLE GUNS.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 29, 1902.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 1 I0 MODEL.

Nm 1723,68 1. I PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

J. KRONE 0. BEHNKE.

GUN CARRIAGE FOR PORTABLE GUNS.

APPLIOATKION FILED D110. 29. i902.

No. 72,3 ,684. 4 PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

I J. KRONE-8; 0. BEHNKE. GUN CARRIAGE FOB. PORTABLE GUNS.

- APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29, 1902.

NUMODEL. V v 4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

No. 723,684. PATEN'I'ED MAR. 24, 1903.

J- KRGNE & O. BEHNKE. GUN CARRIAGE FOR PORTABLE GUNS. APPLICATION FILED mm. 29, 1902. N0 MODEL. 4 sHBETs sHBBT 4.

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with a sli lesmek corresponding with ine slide-track of ine cradle of Lhe service-eerriage and which can be so eonpied with ihe slide-track of said ernille time in will consu 3o lute an extension of BllO Slii'lS. In consequence of this arrangement the gun-barrel after in has been released from the recoilbrake and the recnpernt-nr o1" drawn back upon the slide-tree of he ransport-ca'rringe.

In the accompanying-llrmvings ene embedi= ment of tile snbjeqt-metter (If the present; invention is illustrated n \veyei' example, in wl1icl1 Figure 1 shows the transport-carriage in side elevasion, the nearer Wheels being removed and the relative pesiiien oi the gun prior to the drawing back of Ll gun-barrel upon the iranspor-w 'zrringe bei, inilieeieti by broken lines. Eng. 2 is :1 plain viewef the 4 izrzmsporbcarriage, th position of the gun being indicated by broken lines. Fig. 3 isn section on the iine 3 5, Fig. 1, looking frein the. right, the gun-barrel a 5o. fre n the, reveoil-brnke reeizpereter and firewn back partly npen LllG eiide-hraei:

he gun can be,

uncoupled enni detail view, Me section taken on bi1eline-S,Flg. Lieekinfiirom .lff i". Fig. 1shewsseiienmiicnliyin side the irnnspert-carriage in connecerviee-enrriage after iilO draw- 'rel npc-n bile Sliitransport inrrii-igeg and Fig. 7 eiienily in end. eievntion reiz'ithe trzzns n :zrriage and :eeirringe due nil; uneven positne sem'iee-eerringe wneels, ihe latter in broken lines.

all been; A M iiie ir ileum";- uly eenneeted at one end 7 Lie Wheels 75 and enguyesi at 2L apeeite end with (he king-bolt The nelt c s so niennili-iiaii it is oil. a sex ,l 'alswingingniw All he iinpa tea to the iongiivmlinni Jenni nerizenilal pinne 03' i he swinging of the wreck.

Mounted upon the sir-me Z) 0i ilk-J wheeis B are. two downwnrdly-presented SUI/ i" Z) U, which, togebher with the lateral aibaeinnents (Z d, which project out erGly from the gunbreil D, are designed teen-rest the movement of the treImport-carriage when the intier is rnnved up :Lgeliilfii, the nervieeeerriage to reeeive Size gnn-imrrel.

Adjacent to the ear-truck G on ine longitudinal bean: A mounted a lifiing' device, which is designed 1'0 raise the gunireil D. For this purpese, a worm E is rotatanly nionnied in bearings a projecting from the transverse well a, exienriing between the lengi'mdinal walls of the beam and also havmg a hearing in ene of the longitudinal walls of said beam, which worm can be rotated tinegb the medium of "'1, erz-anlc 61 Standing in engagement with the werm E is n Wormwheel l l and 2, lcewise jour'naled on the transverse wall a, the vertical axis of ieii wernnwheei is connect-ed, fiilrofigh a,

jeine with a serenqspindle G. This screwspiniiie. enga es the female thread of a.

c'lrzi n -roci H, which is srovideden its free ml with an eye It and connected by a bolt with an eye d on the tailpiece d of the servicecarriage; By turning the crank e in one direction or the other it is obvious that the 5 screw-spindle G will be screwed vonto or off of draw-rod H, so that the trail D will be 'j raised or lowered. The joint f permits the llifting device to be folded up beneath the beam for transportation, where it may be held to. by any suitable means. (Not shown in the drawings.)

Upon two intermediate supports J J, secured to the longitudinal beam A of the transport'carriage, is.loosely mounted a barrelholder K, the section of which corresponds, essentially, to that of the sun-barrel cradle on the service-carriage. The support'J' is somewhat higher than'the support J, so that the end of the barrel-holder adjacent to the ear-truck 0 lies somewhat higher than the other end. The barrel-holder terminates at its end toward the car-truck C in an end wall It. Upon the upper edges of the lateral walls of the barrel-holder is mounted a slide-track 95 7t, corresponding in form to the track on the;

cradle of the gun, which slide-track it, in consequence of the described inclined position of the barrel-holder, drops somewhat toward the wheels B. The gunbarrel can be drawn 3o backward upon this slide-track after it has been disconnected from the recoil-brake and the recuperator of the gun. In order to easily eii'fect this drawing backward of the gun-barrel, there is provided a screw-spindle L,which is constructed to receive upon its hexagonal end 1, toward the car-truck(1, the similarly formed hub of a bevel-wheel N. This screwspindle may be turned in either direction through the medium of two cranks mm and 40 corresponding bevel-gears M M. In order to be able to engage the free end of the screwspindle L with the nut 0, formed in the horn 0 of the gun-barrel, the screw-spindle may be moved by hand in the hub of thewheel N a 1% distance limited by the two shoulders l Z Adjacent to the intermediate support J is'a spindle-support P, jointed to the under side of the barrel-holder K, so as to swing in a Vertical plane into'and out of position, and

upon this support the screw'spindle L rests. At the time of drawing the gun-barrel back upon the transport-carriage this support may be laid down out of the way either by hand, through the medium of a haud-leverp, or automatically by. impingement of the horn Oof the gun-breech.

Located upon that end of the longitudinal beam A which lies toward the car-truck!) is a ball-pivot bearing (1*, in which a ball-pivot it rests, and is held by a nut a against lifting, and the barrel-holder may'swing vertically and laterally from its transport'positiou (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) in any desired direction. about this ball-pivot In one of the side walls of the intermediate support J, Fig. 3, is mounted a hollow shaft Q, provided with a screw-thread and rotatable but not movable longitudinally, rotation being imparted through the medium of a crank q. Engaging with the thread on this shaft Q is a draw-rod R, which terminates in an eye *1, gripped between a pair of slotted guides 76, projecting downwardly from the under side of the barrel-holder K, while through the eye r and the slots of these guides 70 a screw-bolt 1* passes with play. A. horizontal adjustment may be imparted to the barrel-holder K relatively to the longitudinal beam A by simply turning the crank q in the proper direction, the barrel-holder K swinging upon its ball-pivot 70 and by reason of the slotted guides 10 the barrel-holder K may receive an upwardlyswinging movement or a tipping movement about its ball-pivot 70 within limits defined by the length of the slots in said guides 70 On opposite sides of that end of the barrelholder lying distant from the car-truck C are angular feet 8, Figs. 1 and 5, connected at their lower ends by a cross-bar s, which'terminates on opposite sides in pins 5. Beyond the end of the barrel'holder K the feet S are extended and terminate in overlaps formed with eyes .9 a-daptedto be coupled by locklug-bolts teach with one of the eyes T, formed on the under side of the rear'end of the guncradlo. On opposite sides of that end of the barrel-holder lying toward the car-truck G are feet U, braced. by cross connection a, Fig. 4, and jointed to permit them to fold up for transportation, in which position they may be held by any suitable means. (Not shown.) The length of the feet 8 and U is fixed on the basis of the following hypothesis: Let it be supposed that the barrel-holder,together with the feet, is removed from the carriage and so connected to the gun-carriage that the feet rest in the rests cl and d of the tail of the gun-carriage. he barrelholder will then assume such a position that the gun-cradle can be brought by the elevating and traversiug gear into a. position in which the slidetrack of the barrel-holder K forms a continuation of the slide-track of the guneradle. The two slide-tracks must in this case be inclined to the horizontal, so that when the tail of the gun-carriage is raised until the slide-tracks are horizontal the barrel-holder K will be approximatelyin the position as regards height which it assumes when it rests upon the transport-carriage.

The manipulation and operation of the guncarriage are as follows: The transport-carriage is pushed as accurately as practicable, wheels B forward, over the midst of the carriage-trail D until the stops 1) b abut against the projections d d of the carriage-trail. The supports U and the parts G 11 of the lifting device are then folded down into vertical position and the eye 71, of the draw-rod H is cou- 'pled with the eye (Z of the gun-trail of the carriage by the insertion of a bolt. The trail is now raised by turning thecrank 6 until the feet S come approximately into engagement :5 will at '1 and in noni givoi; F5 ii with it now stilliarial er i 'lV with it, moving eet iake pert e barrel-holder e or movement Mar of p i o Il i1 0 swinging of ssheir .then the riu no e L esiisos i j era of ihe oi 1x" I ii la s arrel is waginling x 'l the en no we ground i his oneraiion siruoied device and the feet U are now folded and sethe gun-barrel may be transported away upon the bransportcarriage.

The transfer of the gnu-barrel from the slide-Track ofiihe transport-carriage upon the slide-track of the cradle takes place in a manner which is the reverse of that described above.

The use of the l alland-socket connections 7: a between the barrel-holder K and the transport-carriage is not indispensable, as any other suitable connection allowing the same or even greater freedom of the described movements of the barrel-holder, if desired, might employed. Under some circumsianees it might be desirable to omit this connection and in its place to use still another arrangement to accomplish the horizontal movement of the barrel-holdersuch, for in stance as a short chain or an arrangement like that for the intermediate bearing J- to wit, the parts (1 Q R 9 r 7.7 The screwspindle L need nol necessarily be arranged to have the short lost motion. It might be mounted to rotate in the barrel-holder without this longitudinal ,inoveinent, in which case it would he desirable to employ for it, for example, an accurately-guided not upon the slide-track Ir, with which the. gun-barrel will be connected when it is to he run back upon the siide-Lrack of the transport-earriage. In this last-nanied case the support; P and the thread 0 in the horn O can he done away Wiih. A here, however, would obviously be required in the horn on the gun- ?oreech she passage of the screw-spindle L.

Having thus described Lhe invention, the following is What olaiined as new therein:

1. A guircarriage for lergecaliber guns, comprising a service oarriege, and a transport-carriage provided with a slide-.iraok eon- Lo receive the gun-barrel, and perit it ;o slid from and to the service-can age.

A gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel-recoil, coniiprisiug a service-carriage. constructed with a slide-track upon which the gun-iiiarrel recoils, and a transporbcarriage also constructed with a slide-traclz corresponding i0 she slide-track of tho'service-carriage, and constructed to he elined therewith, whereby the gun-barrel may he slid ulong its Lraol: on the service-carriage backward pen the track of the transportcarriage.

- the track on the service-carriage,

4. A gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel-recoil, comprising a service-can riage constructed with a slide-track upon which the gun-barrel recoils, and a transportcarriage also constructed with a slide-track, corresponding to the slide track of the servicecarriage, and constructed to be alined therewith, and means for shifting one of the slide-tracks to aline "t with the other, whereby the gun-barrel may beslid along its track on the service-carriage backward upon the track of the transport-carriage.

5. A gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel-recoil, comprising a service-carriage constructed with a slidetrack upon which the gun-barrel rccoils, and a transportcarriag'e also constructed with a slide-track, corresponding to the slide-track of the service -carriage, and constructed to be alined therewith, means for connecting the tracks end to end, and means for shifting one of the slide-tracks to al-ine it with the other, whereby the gun-barrel may be slid along its track on the service-carriage backward upon the track of the transport-carriage.

6. A gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel recoil, comprising a service-carriage constructed with a slide-track, upon which the gun-barrel recoils, and a transportcarriage also constructed with a slide-track, corresponding to the slide-track of the service-carriage, and constructed to be alined therewith, means for imparting lateral movement to the track on the transport-carriage to bring it into alinement with the track on the service-carriage, whereby the gun-barrel may he slid along its track on the service-carriage. backward upon the track of the transportcarriage.

7. In a gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel-recoil, the combination ofa service-car'riage having a slide-track upon which the gun-barrel recoils, a transport-carriage also provided with a slide-track, means for holding the slide-tracks together, and means for imparting vertical movement to the slidetrack on the transport-carriage to bring it into position to form a continuation of the track on the service-carriage.

8. In a gun-carriage for heavy-caliber guns with barrel-recoil, the combination of a service-carriage having'a slide-track upon which the barrel recoils, and a transport-carriage having a slide-track mounted thereon with vertical, horizontal and tilting movements, whereby it may be moved into alinement with respective carriages are standing on uneven surfaces.

9. In agun-carriage, the combination of the service-carriage having a recoil slide-track, and a trail, a transport-carriage having a slide-track,vertically movable thereon,means on the transport-carriage for lifting the service-carriage trail, and feet through which the trail raises the slide-track on the transportcarriage, proportioned to establish the proper when the veaeee position of the latter relatively to the servicecarriage to permit al-inement of the two tracks.

10. In combination with a service-carriage having a trail a transport-carriage having a slide-track mounted to tilt and to move vertically, lifting connections forthe trail, and lifting-feet on opposite sides of the slide-track through which the trail raises and tilts the slide-track for the purposeset forth.

11. In a gun-carriage for large-caliber guns. having barrel-recoil, the combination of a service-carriage having a cradle provided with a slide-track upon which the gun-barrel recoils, and a transport-carriage also provided with a slide-track, corresponding to the slidetrack on the service-carriage and constructed to be coupled end to end with the latter to form a continuation thereof and permit the gun-barrel to he slid along the tracks from one carriage to the other, with a screw-spindle mounted rotatably on the transport-carriage beneath and longitudinally-of the slidetrack of the latter, and means for connecting said screw-spindle to the gun-barrel, for the purpose of shifting the latter from the slidetrack of the service-carriage on the slide-track of the transport-carriage and vice versa, by turning the screw-spindle.

12. In a gun-carriage guns with barrel-recoil, the combination of a service-carriage, constructed with a slidetrack upon which the gun-barrel recoils, and a transport-carriage also constructed with a slide-track, corresponding to the slide-track of the service-carriage, and constructed to be alined therewith,with stops on either carriage for defining and limiting the relative movements of the service-carriage and transportcarriage.

13. A transport-carriage for large-caliber guns, provided with a slide'track constructed to receive the gnu-barrel and to permit it to be slid on said track to and from the servicecarriage.

14. A transport-carriage for heavy-caliber guns, which are mounted with barrel-recoil when in service, said transport-carriage be- 16. A transport-carriage upon which to' transferthe barrel of a heavy-caliber recoilgun, provided with a slide-track upouwhich for heavy -oaliber iug constructed with a slide-track adapted tg too the-barrel of a large-caliber gun, pro- 1 .vided with the gun may he slid, from its service-carriage,

said slide-track being constructed to aline with the service-carriage and having means for shifting it to bring itintosuch alinement.

17. A transport gun-carriage constructed with a slide-track upon which the gun barrel may he slid from its service-carriage, having means for connecting its slide-track with the service-carriage, and shifting said slide-track to bring it into alinement therewith.

18. A transport gun-carriage constructed with a slide-track upon which the gumbarrel mayhe slid from its service-carriage, and means for imparting vertical and horizontal movement to said slide-track to bringit into alinement, for the purpose set forth.

19. A transport gun-carriage upon which to mount the barrel of a heavy-caliber recoilgun in transportingfrom place to place; said carriage being constructed with a slide-track upon which the barrel is slid to and from the carriage, and means for imparting transverse a nd tilting movements tosaid cradle to bring it into proper position to receive the gun-barrel.

20. A transport gun-carriage for the barrels of heavy-caliber recoil-guns consisting of a suitable carriage, a slide-track mounted JOIIANNES KRONE. OTTO BEHNKE.

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